Hi Folks,
We (SolidQ Australia) are just lining up the SQL Server 2008 Readiness events for Microsoft Australia for the October - December timeframe. There are readiness events for DBA, developers, BI and PerformancePoint. We've also got Solution Days for presales folk and Architecture Days for technical consultants, business analysts and architects.
Details are here: http://www.solidq.com.au/Events/tabid/60/Default.aspx